Today’s readings provide different reactions to stressful and difficult situations. Life is full of challenges that constantly test us. Can we grow in faith and persevere through them? Or do we resort to complaints and recriminations, possibly...
In the human heart, there is often a strange resistance to the beautiful things that God proposes. We note it in this passage from Matthew's Gospel: the people of Nazareth do not accept that Jesus, one of their...
Today’s memorial was formerly a memorial only in honor of Saint Martha. However, on February 2, 2021, Pope Francis expanded this memorial to include Martha’s sister and brother, Mary and Lazarus. Thus, today we...
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” (Matt 13:44)
Many of Christ’s parables of the Kingdom of Heaven concern the problem of good and evil and how God permits them both in our lives. But eventually they must be separated. In this parable, the wheat...
The Word of Jesus is not a concept to be understood with the brain and to be put into practice with our non-existent strengths. Instead, it is a seed that at the right moment comes gently into our hearts, if we welcome it, and gradually grows in this welcome. We pass from the moralism of...
Today is the feast day of Mary Magdalene mentioned at least three time in the Gospels. She was the first follower of Jesus to see the Risen Lord and run to tell the Apostles. She was...
We strive hard to love the members of our families, our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, all our relatives, and we cherish being part of a family. But Jesus...
Sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees is an old saying but a good one. In the Gospel of today, Jesus has already worked many miracles and healed many people and even cast out demons. The scribes and...
The Book of Exodus provides a set of rules for the celebration of Passover; the Gospel of Matthew shows how to adapt the law to meet circumstances. Significant, the...
Sure, Lord, we come to you. Because we feel oppressed and tired, because the weight of life, in some moments, is really unbearable. We come to you because we know that only in you do we find comfort and encouragement. We...
Chorazin and Bethsaida were Jewish towns, just north of His city of residence, Capernaum that Jesus visited to preach and to perform many “mighty deeds.” Tyre...
I feel resistance to the first line of the Gospel. Jesus said, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth.’” I admit that I do want Jesus to bring peace to the earth! I wish my faith would bring...
This part of the discourse is introduced by 2 metaphors (“wise as serpents and innocent as doves”) that illustrate the dangerous situation of disciples...
In our first reading we continue the story of Joseph in Egypt, and how he makes himself known to his brothers. Like yesterday he puts love in place of revenge. He forgives his brothers for trying...
n the first reading we hear what love can do in the place of revenge. Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and now we read of his chance to get...